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Re: starts or seed?

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Annie, if you'll learn to start your tomatoes, your horizons will broaden 
into infinity, giving you thousands of choices of tomatoes, not just the 
half dozen your nursery offers.  Tomatoes and peppers like bottom heat, ca. 
70 to 80 to germinate.  Please don't take chances using a heat mat.  A 
friend has great luck using a clear plastic box with tight fitting lid. She 
puts a tray of seeds planted in moist potting soil, lid securely shut, on 
top of her water heater. She checks it every day, and as soon as the seeds 
start sprouting, she opens the lid and moves the new plants into good 
daylight.  I have a germination mat and a greenhouse, but you don't need 
those things to germinate tomato and pepper seeds.  Margaret L


>I would definitely get the starts, although lettuce and chard are easy to
>start from seed. That's the problem for a newbie (like me), buying seeds is
>attractive, but I never know how hard it's going to be to start them, and
>some seeds are tricky while others are a breeze! This year so far I've had
>good luck with (from seed) peas, chard, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, radishes,
>scallions. I tried some tomato seeds and nothing happened, I guess they are
>harder to start.
>Annie Sargent in gorgeous Utah
>annie@esargent.org


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